Archive for the ‘Multipolar world’ Category
Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2008
“As Polish prime minister from in 2003-2004, Leszek Miller coordinated Poland’s entry into the EU. The day after Poland was admitted to the European family of nations, he resigned under pressure from his opponents.”
(Leszek Miller for RIA Novosti) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to become a hero on the Olympics opening day. To guarantee success, he drafted 100,000 reservists to fight a 70,000-strong republic.
Instead of looking for ways of peaceful settlement with the unruly Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he provoked a bloody conflict which took hundreds of lives. Saakashvili wanted to consolidate his positions in his own country. Having started the war, he did not expect to be its main victim. Meanwhile, he could see it all in advance. A mere 25% of South Ossetia’s population is Georgian and the rest are Ossetians with Russian passports. Moreover, Ossetians remember how Georgians seized their territory by force after the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2008
“According to the International Herald Tribune, an unnamed United Nations official is said to have joked that the U.S. was happy to let Georgia lose South Ossetia as long as Russia voted in favour of censuring Iran. Had the U.S. won decisive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it would not find itself caught in this complex web of linkage between Iran and the imbroglio in the Caucasus. Mr. Putin is taking full advantage of Washington’s dependence on Russia to solve two international problem cases — Iran and North Korea — and extracting his pound of flesh against Georgia.”
The writer overestimates America’s hand: the quid pro quo consists not in Russia allowing the US to isolate Iran but in allowing the US to extricate itself from Iraq without total loss of credibility. Russia is steadily strengthening its links with Iran and could not conceivably allow it to be bombed.
Sreeram Chaulia
The Hindu
As Russia carries its overwhelming response to Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia into Georgian territory, the United States is appealing for restoration of Georgia’s territorial integrity. This is the same U.S. which, a few months ago, was overeager to bless Kosovo as an independent state at the cost of Serbia’s territorial integrity. Just as Washington paid little heed to Moscow’s protests at that time over the illegality of Kosovo’s stateh ood, Moscow is now rebutting in the same vein that there is no question of South Ossetia and Abkhazia being returned to Georgian suzerainty.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2008
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
A geopolitical convulsion measuring six points on the Richter scale is bound to produce aftershocks. The reverberations of the conflict in the Caucasus are beginning to be felt. We may be unwittingly bidding farewell to the “war on terror”. In any case, the international community has lost interest in Osama bin Laden.
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Posted by smeddum on August 16, 2008
War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts. It’s likely to be a taste of things to come
Seumas Milne
The Guardian, Thursday August 14 2008
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The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice-president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that “Russian aggression must not go unanswered”. George Bush denounced Russia for having “invaded a sovereign neighbouring state” and threatening “a democratic government”. Such an action, he insisted, “is unacceptable in the 21st century”.
Could these by any chance be the leaders of the same governments that in 2003 invaded and occupied – along with Georgia, as luck would have it – the sovereign state of Iraq on a false pretext at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives? Or even the two governments that blocked a ceasefire in the summer of 2006 as Israel pulverised Lebanon’s infrastructure and killed more than a thousand civilians in retaliation for the capture or killing of five soldiers? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 16, 2008
Earth Times
16th August, 2008
Berlin – Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has accused Georgia of provoking the recent hostilities with Russia by sending troops into South Ossetia and described President Mikheil Saakashvili as a “gambler,” in an interview published Saturday. “The moment that initiated the current hostilities was the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia,” Schroeder told the German weekly Der Spiegel.
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Posted by alfied on August 14, 2008
DAMASCUS, August 14 (RIA Novosti) – The Syrian and Lebanese presidents have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations between their countries for the first time since gaining independence from French rule, a Syrian presidential advisor said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008
“Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband says Russia’s assault on Georgia shows it can’t accept the Soviet Union era is over.”
No, Britain’s assault on Russia show’s it can’t accept the empire is over.
IHT
13th August, 2008
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband says Russia’s assault on Georgia shows it can’t accept the Soviet Union era is over.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008
“After fighting broke out late last week between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Israel’s Foreign Ministry over the weekend recommended suspending the sale of all weapons and defense-related equipment to Georgia, the daily Ha’aretz newspaper reported”.
Once again, we see a surprising and most welcome resort to pragmatism.
Peter Hirschberg
Asia Times
14th August, 2008
JERUSALEM – With the eruption of fighting between Russia and Georgia, Israel has found itself in an awkward position as a result of its arms sales to Georgia. Israel is now caught between its friendly relations with Georgia and its fear that the continued sale of weaponry will spark Russian retribution in the form of increased arms sales to Iran and Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008
“It’s quite normal that Russia wants to defend its interests, as well as the interests of Russians both in and outside Russia.“
CIA or no, pragmatism rules now and Sarkozy shows himself alert to the shifting balance of global power.
Russia Today
13th August, 2008
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy have drawn up a peace plan for settling the conflict in South Ossetia. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has accepted the plan.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008
The USA’s efforts to stop a European/Russian superstate
Christopher King
Redress Information and Analysis
10th August, 2008
Christopher King argues that the “US and NATO are behind the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia” but have misjudged Russian resolve. He says it is time for Europe to distance itself from NATO, which has become a US tool, and to choose whether it wants Russia as a friend or an enemy.
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Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008
| Yousef Fernandez
Press TV
10th August, 2008
Tensions between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and Russia erupted into full-scale war on 7 August, leaving thousands of civilians dead and turning dozens of thousands more into refugees.
The conflict in South Ossetia has great strategic importance because it involves one of the United States’ staunch allies and Russia, a re-emerging superpower with vast energy reserves that is showing growing eagerness to defend its interests on the international stage.
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